Trinity Fatu, previously often known as Naomi, is opening up about why she walked out on the WWE.
During an look on the wrestling podcast Busted Open, the previous Smackdown Women’s Champion defined what led to her abrupt exit, the way it impacted her psychological well being, and why she selected to affix Impact Wrestling.
“The doors are open for me everywhere, literally everywhere, but I truly feel like Impact is the best choice for me at this point in my in my life right now with what I want to do,” Fatu shared. “Just to be able to work with the talent there, I feel that it’s where I’ll be happiest and most utilized and really get to grow in the ways that I feel that I need to right now on this wrestling journey.”
Fatu made her Impact Wrestling debut this previous Saturday throughout a taping of Spring Slugfest, which is ready to air on Thursday’s episode of IMPACT! at 8/7c on AXS TV. This marked her first time within the ring since strolling out throughout a stay taping of WWE’s Monday Night Raw final May. (Note: In March, Fatu confirmed through Instagram that she was not with the WWE.)
“Had all of this stuff never happened, there’s no way I would have taken that leap, but the situation kind of forced me to figure it out. That’s what I meant when I say everything was like a blessing in disguise, because I was really going through a lot and I just felt very stagnant and I wasn’t happy,” she stated.
Fatu went on to share that she in the end walked out on May 16, 2022, “because of the way I was talked to and handled, and everything kind of just broke me that day. [It] had nothing to do with anything else, anybody else. But that was it. I had to.”
“Just to go through all the backlash and the negativity and the lies and the rumors and then to also kind of just feel lost… It broke me,” she famous. “It was probably the lowest I’ve ever felt in my life. But going through that, it made me reset and face it head on and figure out how to learn from this experience, grow from it and find myself again in all of it. I’m extremely happy now and really thankful for this opportunity to show that you haven’t seen me at my best yet.”
As you’ll recall of the walkout final May, Fatu’s tag crew associate Mercedes Varnado (identified within the WWE as Sasha Banks) took problem with the result of a deliberate fundamental occasion, which might have featured her and Fatu in a Six-Pack Challenge alongside Asuka, Becky Lynch, Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H. to find out who would face Bianca Belair at “Hell in a Cell.” Varnado reportedly met with then CEO Vince McMahon to specific her considerations, and McMahon is alleged to have refused to vary his plans for the crew. She subsequently left the constructing with Fatu.
The pair was suspended indefinitely, and veteran announcer Michael Cole revealed that there can be a event to crown the brand new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions on Friday Night Smackdown. Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah defeated Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai and IYO SKY) on the Aug. 29 version of Raw to grow to be the brand new champs. Currently, Raquel Rodriguez and Liv Morgan are the reigning champions. Varnado, in the meantime, wrestles beneath the title Mercedes Moné with New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
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